Faculty Profiles

Nice, C. (2022). Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs, e1553.

Nice, C. (2022). A continental-scale survey of Wolbachia infections in blue butterflies reveals evidence of interspecific transfer and invasion dynamics. G3 Genes — Genomes — Genetics, jkac213.

Nice, C. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Nice, C. (2022). Molecular Ecology.

Zalmat, A., Sotola, V. A., Nice, & Martin, N. H. (2021). Genetic structure in Louisiana Iris species reveals patterns of recent and historical admixture. American Journal of Botany, 108, 2257-2268. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1758

Zerebecki, R., & Nice, C. (2021). Repeated genetic and adaptive phenotypic divergence across tidal elevation in a foundation plant species. American Naturalist, 198, E152–E169.

Nice, C. (2021). Geographic patterns of genomic variation in the threatened Salado salamander, Eurycea chisholmensis. Conservation Genetics, 22, 811–821.

Flannagan, B., & Nice, C. (2021). Founder effects shape linkage disequilibrium and genomic diversity of a clonal invader. Molecular Ecology, 30, 1962–1978.

Forister, M., & Nice, C. (2021). Community scientists see fewer butterflies across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West. Science, 371, 1042–1045.

Nice, C. (2021). Insects and recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(2), e2002543117.

Nice, C. (2021). Using RAD-seq to develop sex-linked markers in a haplodiplontic alga. Journal of Phycology.

Nice, C. (2020). Commentary: Evaluating the migration mortality hypothesis using Monarch tagging data. Fronteirs in Ecology and Evolution, 8.

Nice, C. (2020). Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion. Science Advances, 6(48), eabc6852.

Nice, C. (2020). Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly. Ecology and Evolution, 10(10), 4362–4374.

Nice, C. (2020). Recent hybrids recapitulate ancient hybrid outcomes. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1–15.

Alex Sotola, V., Ruppel, D. S., Bonner, T. H., Nice, C., & Martin, N. H. (2019). Asymmetric introgression between fishes in the Red River basin of Texas is associated with variation in water quality. Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 2083–2095. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4901

Knuckles, R., Nice, C., & Garcia, D. (2019). Duplicated myosin V genes in teleosts show evolutionary rate variations among the motor and cargo binding domains. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(2), 415–430.

Nice, C., & Shapiro, A. M. (2019). Extreme heterogeneity of population response to climatic variation and the limits of prediction. Global Change Biology, 25, 2127-2136.

Driscoe, A., Nice, C., & Ott, J. (2019). Host plant associations and geography interact to shape diversification in a specialist insect herbivore. Molecular Ecology, 28(18), 4197–4211.

Coleman, W., Bell, K., Gibson, J., Schwartz, B. F., & Nice, C. (2019). Patterns of genetic diversity in a genus of ecologically diverse riffle beetles. Retrieved from https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/uploads/4/8/8/0/48804503/2019_program.pdf

Nice, C. C., & Ott, J. R. (2019). Host plant associations and geography interact to shape diversification in a specialist insect herbivore.

Bell, K. L., Nice, C., & Hulsey, C. D. (2019). Population genomic evidence reveals subtle pat- terns of differentiation in the trophically polymorphic Cuatro Cinegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi. Journal of Heredity, 2019, 361-369.

Nuckels, R. J., Nice, C., & Garcia, D. M. (2018). Duplicated myosin V genes in teleosts show evolutionary rate variations among the motor and cargo binding domains. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(2), 415–430.

Forister, M., Fordyce, J., Nice, C., Thorne, J., Waetjen, D., & Shapiro, A. M. (2018). Impacts of a millennium drought on butterfly faunal dynamics. Climate Change Responses, 5(1), 3.

Lucas, L., Nice, C., & Gompert, Z. (2018). Genetic constraints on wing pattern variation in Lycaeides butterflies: A case study on mapping complex, multifaceted traits in structured populations. Molecular Ecology Resources, 18.

Chaturvedi, S., Lucas, L., Nice, C., Fordyce, J., Forister, M., & Gompert, Z. (2018). The predictability of genomic changes underlying a recent host shift in Melissa blue butterflies. Molecular Ecology, 27, 2651–2666.

Sung, C.-J., Bell, K. L., Nice, C., & Martin, N. H. (2018). Integrating Bayesian genomic cline analyses and association mapping of morphological and ecological traits to dissect reproductive isolation and introgression in a Louisiana Iris hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology, 27(4), 959–978.

Sotola, V. A., Ruppel, D., Bonner, T. H., Nice, C., & Martin, N. H. (n.d.). Asymmetric introgres- sion between fishes in the Red River basin of Texas is associated with variation in water quality. Ecology and Evolution. Ecology and Evolution.

Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Bell, K. L., Forsiter, M. L., Gompert, Z., & DeVries, P. (n.d.). Vertical differentiation in tropical forest butterflies: a novel mechanism generating insect diversity?

Bell, K. L., Hamm, C. A., Shapro, A. M., & Nice, C. (2017). Sympatric, temporally isolated populations of the pine white butterfly Neophasia menapia, are morphologically and genetically differentiated. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0176989 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176989. https://doi.org/e0176989 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176989

Worsham, M. M., Julius, E. P., Nice, C., Diaz, P. H., & Huffman, D. G. (2017). Geographic isolation facilitates the evolution of reproductive isolation and morphological divergence. Ecology and Evolution, 7(23), 10278–10288.

Coleman, W. T., Nice, C., Nowlin, W. H., & Schwartz, B. F. (2017). Cryptic, sympatric diversity uncovered in Lirceolus isopods at a stygobiont hot-spot, Edwards Aquifer, Texas.

Worsham, M. L. D., Julius, E. P., Nice, C., Diaz, P. H., & Huffman, D. G. (2017). Geographic isolation facilitates the evolution of reproductive isolation and morphological divergence. Ecology and Evolution. Ecology and Evolution, 7(23). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3474

Lucas, L. K., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2016). Mountains of detail: On the trail with Nabokov’s blues. In S. H. Blackwell & K. Johnson (Eds.), Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art (pp. 251–259). Yale University Press. New Haven and London.

Hulsey, C. D., Bell, K. L., Garcia-de-Leon, F. J., Nice, C., & al, et. (2016). Do relaxed selection and habitat temperature facilitate biased mitogenomic introgression in a narrowly endemic fish? Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2121

Espeset, A. E., Harrison, J. G., Shapiro, A. M., Nice, C., Thorne, J. H., Waetjen, D. P., … Forister, M. L. (2016). Understanding a migratory species Curriculum Vitae, Chris C. Nice page 1 in a changing world: climatic effects and demographic declines in the western monarch revealed by four decades of intensive monitoring. Oecologia.

Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., Hamm, C. A., & Forister, M. L. (2016). Quantifying diet breadth through ordination of host association. Ecology.

Lucas, L. K., Nice, C., Gompert, Z., Gibson, J. R., Bell, K. L., & Buerkle, C. A. (2016). Pervasive gene flow across critical habitat for four narrowly endemic, sympatric taxa. Freshwater Biology.

Harrison, J. G., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., Buerkle, C. A., Grinstead, R., Jahner, J. P., … Forister, M. L. (2016). The many dimensions of diet breadth: phytochemical, genetic, behavioral, and physiological perspectives on the interaction between a native herbivore and an exotic host. PLoS One, 11(2).

Glassmire, A. E., Jeffrey, C. S., Forister, M. L., Parchman, T., Nice, C., & et al. (2016). Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars. New Phytologist, 212, 208–219.

Forister, M. L., Cousens, B., Harrison, J. G., Anderson, K., Thorne, J. H., Waetjen, D., … Shapiro, A. M. (2016). Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly faune of lowland California. Biology Letters, 12, 20160475. https://doi.org/University of California, Davis

Jahner, J. P., Forister, M. L., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Wilson, J. S., Murphy, D. D., … Shapiro, A. M. (2015). Regional population differentiation in a morphologically-diverse, elevationally-widespread Nearctic skipper. Polites Sabuleti. J. Biogeography, 42, 1787–1799. https://doi.org/10.1371

Gompert, Z., Jahner, J. P., Scholl, C. F., Wilson, J. S., Lucas, L. K., Soria-Carrasco, V., … Forister, M. L. (2015). The evolution of novel host use is not constrained by tradeoffs or a lack of genetic variation. Molecular Ecology, 24, 2777–2793.

Harrison, J. G., Shapiro, A. M., Espeset, A. E., Nice, C., Jahner, J. P., & Forister, M. L. (2015). Species with more volatile population dynamics are differentially impacted by weather. Biology Letters.

Gompert, Z., Lucas, L. K., Buerkle, C. A., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2014). Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants. Molecular Ecology, 23, 4555–4573.

Nice, C., Forister, M. L., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., Shapiro, A. M., & Buerkle, C. A. (2014). A hierarchical perspective on the diversity of butterfly species’ responses to weather in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Ecology, 95(8), 2155–2168.

Hamm, C. A., Handley, A., Pike, A., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., & Nice, C. (2014). Wolbachia infection and Lepidoptera of conservation concern. J. Insect Science. Retrieved from http://www.insectscience.org/14.6

Wilson, J. S., Sneck, M., Murphy, D. D., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., & Forister, M. L. (2013). Complex evolutionary history of the pallid dotted-blue butterfly (Lycaenidae: Euphilotes pallescens) in the Great Basin of North America. J. Biogeography, 40, 2059–2070.

Gompert, Z., Lucas, L. K., Nice, C., & Buerkle, C. A. (2013). Genome divergence and the genetic architecture of barriers to gene flow between Lycaeides idas and L. melissa. Evolution, 67, 2498–2514.

Alberici da Barbiano, L. A., Gompert, Z., Aspbury, A. S., Gabor, C. R., & Nice, C. (2013). Population genomics reveals a possible history of backcrossing and recombination in the gynogenetic fish Poecilia formosa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110.

Gompert, Z., Lucas, L. K., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Buerkle, C. A., & Forister, M. L. (2013). Geographically variable, multifarious phenotypic divergence during the speciation process. Ecology and Evolution, 3, 595–613.

Forister, M. L., Scholl, C. F., Jahner, J. P., Wilson, J. S., Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., … Nice, C. (2013). Specificity, rank preference and the colonization of a non-native host plant by the Melissa blue butterfly. Oecologia, 172, 177–188.

Nice, C., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., Lucas, L. K., & Buerkle, C. A. (2013). Hybrid speciation and independent evolution in lineages of alpine butterflies. Evolution, 67, 1055–1068.

Ethridge, J. Z., Gibson, J. R., & Nice, C. (2013). Cryptic diversity within and among spring-associated Stygobromus amphipods (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167, 227–242.

Downey, M. H., & Nice, C. (2013). A role for both ecology and geography as mechanisms of reproductive isolation in specialized butterflies. Evolutionary Ecology, 27, 565–578.

DiMarco, R. D., Nice, C., & Fordyce, J. A. (2012). Family matters: effect of host plant variation in chemical and mechanical defenses on a sequestering specialist herbivore. Oecologia, 170, 687–693.

Scholl, C. F., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., & Forister, M. L. (2012). Larval performance in the context of ecological diversification and speciation in Lycaeides butterflies. International Journal of Ecology, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/242154

Gompert, Z., Lucas, L. K., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., & Buerkle, C. A. (2012). Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species. Evolution, 66, 2167–2181.

Gabor, C., Aspbury, A., Ma, J., & Nice, C. (2012). The role of androgens in species recognition and sperm production in Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana). Physiology & Behavior, 105(3), 885--892.

Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., Forister, M. L., & Nice, C. (2011). A hierarchical Bayesian approach to ecological count data: a flexible tool for ecologists. PLOS One, 6(11).

Gabor, C. R., Aspbury, A. S., Ma, J., & Nice, C. (2011). The role of androgens in sperm production and species recognition in Atlantic mollies (Peocilia mexicana). Physiology and Behavior, 105, 885–892.

Alberici da Barbiano, L., Aspbury, A. S., Gabor, C. R., & Nice, C. (2011). The impact of social context on male mate preference in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex. Journal of Fish Biology, 79, 194–204.

Downey, M. H., & Nice, C. (2011). Experimental evidence of hostrace formation in Mitoura butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Oikos, 120, 1165–1174.

Forister, M. L., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2011). After sixty years, an answer to the question: what is the Karner blue butterfly? Biology Letters, 7, 399–402.

Forister, M. L., Gompert, Z., Nice, C., Forister, G. W., & Fordyce, J. A. (2010). Ant association facilitates the evolution of diet breath in a lycaenid butterfly. Proc. Royal Soc. B., 228, 1539–1547.

Gompert, Z., Lucas, L. K., Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., & Forister, M. L. (2010). Secondary contact between Lycaeides idas and L. melissa in the Rocky Mountains: extensive introgression and a patchy hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology, 19, 3171–3192.

Gompert, Z., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., Williamson, R., & Buerkle, C. A. (2010). Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome in Lycaeides butterflies. Molecular Ecology, 19, 3171–3192.

Fordyce, J. A., DiMarco, R. D., blakenship, B. A., & Nice, C. (2010). Host plant trichomes and the advantage of being big: progeny size variation of the pipevine swallowtail. Ecological Entomology, 35, 104–107.

Nice, C., Gompert, Z., Forister, M. L., & Fordyce, J. A. (2009). An unseen foe in arthropod conservation efforts: The case of Wolbachia infections in the Karner blue butterfly. Biological Conservation, 142, 3137–3146.

Lucas, L. K., Fries, N., Gabor, C. R., & Nice, C. (2009). Genetic variation and structure in Eurycea nana, a federally threatened salamander endemic to the San Marcos springs. Journal of Herpetology, 42(2), 220–227.

Lucas, L. K., Gompert, Z., Ott, J. R., & Nice, C. (2009). Geographic and genetic isolation in spring-associated Eurycea salamanders endemic to the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Conservation Genetics, 10, 1309–1319.

Forister, M. L., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., & Gompert, Z. (2009). Host range evolution is not driven by the optimization of larval performance: the case of Lycaeides melissa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and the colonization of alfalfa. Oecologia, 160, 551–561.

Gompert, Z., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2008). Widespread mito-nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides. Molecular Ecology, 17, 5231–5244.

Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., & Nice, C. (2008). Recent colonization and radiation of North American Lycaeides (Plebejus) inferred from mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48, 481–490.

Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., Nice, C., Burns, J. M., & Shapiro, A. M. (2008). Patterns of genetic variation between the checkered skippers Pyrgus communis / P. albescens (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Annals Entomological Society America, 101(4), 794–800.

Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2008). Antagonistic, stage-specific selection on defensive chemical sequestration in a toxic butterfly. Evolution, 62, 1610–1617.

Lucas, L., Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2008). Patterns of genitalic morphology around suture zones in North American Lycaeides (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): Implications for taxonomy and historical biogeography. Annals Entomological Society America, 101, 172–180.

Forister, M. L., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., & Shapiro, A. M. (2008). Considering evolutionary processes in the use of single-locus genetic data for conservation, with examples from the Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation, 12, 37–51.

Nice, C. (2006). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY [Review of The Quarterly Review of Biology, by J. R. Freeland].

Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., Shapiro, A. M., & Nice, C. (2006). Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat. Science, 314, 1923–1925.

Crutsinger, G. M., Collins, M. D., Fordyce, J. A., Gompert, Z., Nice, C., & Sanders, N. J. (2006). Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science, 313, 966–968.

Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., Gompert, Z., & Shapiro, A. M. (2006). Egg morphology varies among populations and habitats along a suture zone in the Lycaeides idas-melissa species complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Annals Entomological Society America, 99(5), 933–937.

Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., & Shapiro, A. M. (2006). A novel trade-off of insect diapause involving a sequestered chemical defense. Oecologia, 149, 101–106.

Lutz-Carillo, D. J., Nice, C., Bonner, T. H., J., M. R., & Fries, L. (2006). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 135, 779–791.

Gompert, Z., Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, M. L., & Shapiro, A. M. (2006). Identifying units for conservation using molecular taxonomy: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly. Molecular Ecology, 15, 1759–1768.

Lutz-Carillo, D. J., Nice, C., Bonner, T. H., Forstner, M. R. J., & Fries, L. (2006). Admixture analysis of Florida Bass and Largemouth Bass using microsatellite loci. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 135, 779–791.

Nice, C., & Fordyce, J. A. (2006). How caterpillars avoid overheating: behavioral and phenotypic plasticity of pipevine swallowtail larvae. Oecologia, 146, 541–548.

Reilly, S. M., Manning, R. W., Nice, C., & Forstner, M. R. J. (2006). Systematics of isolated populations of short-tailed shrews (Soricidae: Blarina) in Texas. J. Mammalogy, 86(5), 887–894.

Nice, C., Anthony, N., Gelembiuk, G., Raterman, D., & French-Constant, R. (2005). The history and geography of diversification within the butterfly genus Lycaeides in North America. Molecular Ecology, 14, 1741–1754.

Gabor, C. R., & Nice, C. (2004). Genetic variation among populations of eastern newts, Notophthalmus viridescens : a preliminary analysis based on allozymes. Herpetologica, 60(3), 373–386.

Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2004). Geographic variation in clutch size and a realized benefit of aggregative feeding. Evolution, 58(2), 447–450.

Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2003). Contemporary patterns in a historical context: phylogeographic history of the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor. Evolution, 57(5), 1089–1099.

Fordyce, J. A., & Nice, C. (2003). Variation in butterfly egg adhesion: adaptation to local host plant senescence characteristics? Ecology Letters, 6, 23–27.

Nice, C., Fordyce, J. A., Shapiro, A. M., & Ffrench-Constant, R. (2002). Lack of evidence for reproductive isolation among ecologically specialized lycaenid butterflies. Ecological Entomology, 27, 702–712.

Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C., Forister, M. L., & Shapiro, A. M. (2002). The significance of wing pattern diversity in the Lycaenidae: mate discrimination by two recently diverged species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15, 871–879.

Anthony, N., Gelembiuk, G., Raterman, D., Nice, C., & Ffrench-Constant, R. (2001). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the endangered Karner blue butterfly Lycaeides melissa samuelis (Lepidoptera). Hereditas, 134(3), 271–273.

Nice, C., & Shapiro, A. M. (2001). Patterns of morphological, biochemical and molecular evolution in the Oeneis chryxus complex (Lepidoptera: Satyridae): a test of historical biogeographical hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 20, 111–123.

Nice, C., & Shapiro, A. M. (2001). Population genetic evidence of restricted gene flow between host races in the butterfly genus Mitoura (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). Annals Entomological Society America, 94, 257–267.

Nice, C. (2000). Art and science as ways of knowing.

Nice, C., & Shapiro, A. M. (1999). olecular and morphological divergence in the butterfly genus Lycaeides (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in North America: evidence of recent speciation. MJournal of Evolutionary Biology, 12, 927–935.

Nice, C., & VanBuskirk, R. W. (1997). The butterflies of Mt. Ashland: surveys along the Siskiyou Crest. Proceedings of the First Siskiyou Ecology Conference. The Siskiyou Regional Education Project, 12, 146–157.

Nice, C., Glassmire, A. E., Jeffrey, C. S., Forister, M. L., Parchman, T. L., Jahner, J. P., … Dyer, L. A. (1925). Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars. New Phytologist.